- •Contents
- •Введение
- •Модульная структура учебного пособия «basic english grammar course»
- •Module I
- •The verbs «to be», «to have»
- •The verb ‘to be’
- •Present Past Future
- •The functions of the verb ‘to be’
- •Exercises Exercise 1. Fill in ’m, ’s, ’re, ’m not, isn’t or aren’t, as in the example.
- •The verb ‘to have’ Present Past Future
- •The functions of the verb ‘to have’
- •Exercises
- •Tasks for self-control module I
- •Revision module I
- •Progress test module I
- •Module II
- •Impersonal sentences
- •Exercises
- •Impersonal sentences
- •Exercises
- •Tasks for self-control module II
- •Revision module II
- •Progress test module II
- •Module III
- •Imperatives. Types of questions
- •Imperative sentences
- •Exercises
- •Types of questions
- •Exercises
- •Tasks for selfcontrol module III
- •Revision module III
- •Progress test module III
- •Module IV the nouns the noun. Plural of nouns
- •Exercises
- •The possessive case of the noun
- •Exercises
- •Tasks for self-control module IV
- •Revision module IV
- •Progress test module IV
- •Module V the quantifiers the numerals
- •Cardinals
- •Ordinals
- •2. The cardinals
- •3. The ordinals
- •Exercises
- •Much, many, little, a little, few, a few
- •Exercises
- •Tasks for self-control module V Task 1. Insert few, little, a few, a little.
- •Task 2. Read and literally translate. Insert articles where necessary.
- •Revision module V
- •Progress test module V
- •Module VI the pronouns types of the pronouns
- •Possessive pronouns
- •Interrogative pronouns
- •Indefinite pronouns
- •Negative pronouns
- •Exercises
- •Exercise 2. Use the appropriate form of the possessive pronoun.
- •Exercise 5. Point out the reflexive pronouns and define their function.
- •Exercise 6. Supply some or any.
- •Exercise 7. Supply somebody or anybody, someone or anyone.
- •Exercise 8. Supply something or anything.
- •Tasks for self-control module VI Task 1. Point out the pronouns in the following sentences and define the class each belongs to.
- •Task 2. Point out conjunctive, relative, and interrogative pronouns.
- •Revision module VI
- •Progress test module VI
- •Module VII the adjectives and adverbs the adjectives. Degrees of comparison
- •3. Polysyllable adjectives.
- •IV. Spelling rules
- •Note 3: There is a group of so called limit adjectives which already have a very strong meaning:
- •Exercises
- •The adverbs
- •Farther - farthest
- •3. Adverbs or adjectives?
- •Exercises
- •Task for self-control Task 1. State the morphological composition of the following adjectives.
- •Task 2. Give the comparative and superlative degrees.
- •Task 3. Use the adjective in the comparative or superlative degree.
- •Task 4. Point out all the substantivised adjectives and state whether they are wholly or partially substantivised.
- •Task 5. State the morphological composition of the following adverbs.
- •Revision
- •Progress test module VII
- •Rating scale
- •Bibliography
Task for self-control Task 1. State the morphological composition of the following adjectives.
Pretty, bushy, weather-stained, thoughtful, hard-hearted, illegitimate, sober, non-party, low-bred, improbable, sceptical, counter-revolutionary, careworn, beloved, wicked, disobedient, long-legged, regular, water-proof, large, well-timed, homeless, shaky, courageous, panic-stricken, blindfold, Portuguese, newly-baked, antique, peace-making, forlorn, illegible, abundant, red-haired, small, deep-blue, bookish, snow-white, respectable-looking.
Task 2. Give the comparative and superlative degrees.
Cosy, merciful, bad, complete, fat, cheap, big, clumsy, stupid, far, miserable, narrow, virtuous, simple, merry, regular, expensive, low, deep, sad, significant, bitter, intimate, lazy, old, serious, tiny, clever, little, considerate, gay, good, much, dark, beautiful, dear, fit.
Task 3. Use the adjective in the comparative or superlative degree.
1. They had dined well and were now drinking hard, their faces getting __ and __ (red, red) (Priestley) 2. Was there anything in the world __ than indecision? (bad) (Galsworthy) 3. He was only five years __ than I was, which made him forty-five. (young) (Snow) 4. He loved his brother and he had done his brother what people seemed to consider __ of wrongs. (bitter) (Greene) 5. __ sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. (bad) (Shaw) 6. He had been a great fencer, before the war, __ fencer in Italy. (great) (Hemingway) 7. She is stopping at one of __ hotels in town. (good) (Saroyan) 8. Difficult to believe it was so long ago, he felt young still! Of all his thoughts this was __, __ .With his white head and his loneliness he had remained young and green at heart. (poignant, bitter) (Galsworthy) 9. She received congratulations as if she were __ of women. (happy) (Hansford Johnson) 10. Kate remembered the little general; he was a good deal __ than herself. (small) (Lawrence) 11. I think we’ll resume the conversation when you’re a little __, Caroline. (calm) (Maugham) 12. They had never made __ pretence of believing him. (little) (Greene) 13. Things went from bad to __ .(bad) (Saroyan) 14. He took his trinkets, carried them to the __ pawnshop he could find, and being offered forty-five dollars for the lot, took it. (presentable) (Dreiser) 15. He felt her breathing grow __ and __ .(slow, easy) (Cusack) 16. To be ashamed of his own father is perhaps __ experience a young man can go through. (bitter) (Galsworthy) 17. It’s __ in here than it is on the street. (hot) (Salinger) 18. I think you’re about __ girl in school. (pretty) (Shaw) 19. All his life he had taken pains to be __, __ than his fellows. (strong, brave) (Saroyan) 20. From that moment may be dated the downfall of __ and __ of the Indian nations, that existed within the limits of the present United States. (great, civilized) (Cooper) 21. Mr. Micawber, under pretence of showing me a __ way than that by which I had come, accompanied me to the corner of the street. (near) (Dickens) 22. He would walk here and there and be no __ than an ant in an ant hill. (conspicuous) (Greene) 23. We slept in a double-bedded room, which was __ that the little country inn could do for us. (good) (Conan Doyle) 24. This is Sam Penty one of our __ artists. (good) (Priestley)